ubuntu-cve-2019-12970
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-07-01 11:15
Modified
2025-07-16 04:54
Summary
Details

XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.

Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "squirrelmail",
            "binary_version": "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "squirrelmail",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/squirrelmail@2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty/esm"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3build0.14.04.1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "squirrelmail",
            "binary_version": "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "squirrelmail",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/squirrelmail@2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2ubuntu1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2ubuntu1.16.04.1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.16.04.1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2build0.16.04.1",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2ubuntu0.16.04.2",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2ubuntu0.16.04.3",
        "2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:54:41Z",
  "published": "2019-07-01T11:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12970"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4669-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12970"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-4669-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2019-12970"
  ]
}



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